17 - 04 - 2025 11 Form English

Topic  Reading

Read and translate the text     "Tom’s Early Life"

    The street where the Tom’s family lived was dirty and the houses were of wood, with small windows. Canty’s family lived in one room.  The mother and the father had a bed, but Tom, his grandmother and his two sisters, Bet and Nan, slept on the floor and covered themselves with rags.

      Bet and Nan were fifteen years old. They were twins. They were always dirty and in rags, but they were kind-hearted girls. Their mother was like them but their father and their grandmother were very bad people. They often got drunk and then they fought each other and beat the children.

     Tom’s father John Canty, was a thief and Tom’s grandmother was a begger, and they made the children to beg.   Every day Tom went out to beg in the street. If nobody gave him any money his father and grandmother beat him at night and sent him to bed hungry.

      But there were some good things in Tom’s life. Among the people who lived in the some house there was a kind old person. He taught Tom a little Latin and how to read and write. The old man also told him many stories about kings and princes. Tom liked to listen to his stories.  When the children played Tom was always a prince and the boys were lords and his court.

     At night Tom thought about kings and princes who were clean and very well dressed and lived in very beautiful palaces. He wanted to see a real prince with his own eyes. This wish became stronger and stronger day by day and at last he could think of nothing else.

I.    Write  and mark if the statements are” true ‘or’ false”

1. Tom lived in a beautiful house.

2. Tom didn’t have his own room.

3. His father and grandmother were bad people.

4. Tom’s sisters were kind girls.

5. The children were often beaten by their father and grandmother.

6. Tom didn’t beg in the street every day.

7. Tom could neither read nor write.

8. He liked to listen to the old man’s stories.

9. At night Tom liked to dream about kings and princes.

10. He wanted to see a real prince.

II.     Answer the questions:

1. Where did Tom’s family live?

2. What was his family like?

3. What were his father and his grandmother?

4. What were the best things in Tom’s life?

5. Who taught Tom to read and write?

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